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Search for rule-breaking electrons

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Questioning the validity of axioms can teach us about physics beyond the standard model. A recent search for the violation of charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle yields limits on these scenarios.

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Fig. 1: Signatures of the violation of charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle.

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